On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 9:23:21 AM UTC-10, wrote:
> Frank Baron:
>
> Not saying the trucker did anything to cause your
> flat that night, but: Not all truckers like their jobs.
> Many are under pressures not self-imposed, but
> by their employers or customers, to get product
> to stores where you and I can buy it. And sometimes
> their driving habits show it: Speeding, tail-gating
> other drivers, frequent lane changes, frequent
> use of the horns, etc.
>
> Best just to give them their room. Remember:
> this is not Star Wars - they are not "Imperial Star
> Destroyers" and we are not Luke in his X-wing,
> or Han Solo in the Falcon, zooming by them in
> outer space and taunting them. LOL

My guess is that the emergence of self-driving trucks will bring about the return of highway pirates. It is going to look like small X-wings attacking an Imperial Star Destroyer.